Victor Hugo Quotes, Fire Quotes, Wind Quotes

A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?

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She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.

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The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The possibility of touch should increase respect. The down of the peach, the dust of the plum, the radiated crystal of snow, the butterfly’s wing powdered with feathers, are gross things beside that chastity that does not even know it is chaste. The young maiden is only the glimmer of a dream and is not yet statue. Her alcove is hidden in the shadows of the ideal. The indiscreet touch of the eye desecrates this dim penumbra. Here, to gaze, is to profane.

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The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.

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Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

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Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.

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I see black light (his last words)

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He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and that he was committing a profanation. Moreover, he did not feel one passionate desire for this ravishing woman, whose form he felt against his heart. He was lost in love.

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Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

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Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.

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Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.

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If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.

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I think, therefore I doubt.

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The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real

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How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.

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Oh! Everything I loved!

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Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents; in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight; and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights.

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